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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blunt tool for that, and probably not the best one.” The hotline scheme has already been altered once in response to Skocpol’s original concern that the hotline’s undergraduate board would directly approach TFs with complaints. Skocpol’s unrest led Petersen to change the program so that the only parties approached would be course heads. But, according to one TF, this conciliatory gesture may in fact have compromised the initiative’s effectiveness. “You’re bypassing the TF itself, which is probably an easier...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Center Balks At TF Hotline | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...Fifty years on, Ghana remains an uncannily accurate measure of Africa's successes and failures; its ambitions and broken dreams. Beginning a pattern that would repeat itself in other African states, the optimism of independence gave way to unrest, militarism and economic decline. As elsewhere, though, Ghanaians have struggled back, rebuilding their country, renewing their democracy and securing fresh reason to hope. That rise and fall and rise again has given many Ghanaians - and many Africans - a more realistic understanding of what it will take to develop their continent's fragile fortunes than they had in the first flush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight's Family | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...under the direction of interim president Samuel Langdon, class of 1740, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts officially recognized Harvard College as a university. A sign of Harvard’s increasing strength as an institution, the recognition came at a time of growing unrest among Harvard’s students. Just miles from the Yard, young men were dying for the Revolution. No longer physically beaten by their instructors and increasingly recognized for their merit, students were taking a stand and trying to take control of their school. The president was becoming increasingly accountable; the sparks of the modern university were...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning a New Page | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...Edward Everett, class of 1811. “Old Granny,” as students unaffectionately called him, was also killed in effigy in the Yard—this time by hanging. Although Everett was hired to help settle US/Canadian border disputes, he couldn’t settle the unrest in his own university...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning a New Page | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...year-old police officer was killed by rioters outside a stadium in Sicily. Games were cancelled last weekend, and this week the government imposed new measures to curb this hooliganism all'italiana. The policies in fact are largely inspired by the relatively successful British effort to quiet unrest from the notably rowdy spectators in England's football leagues. Among the most immediate effects is that home teams must play in empty stadiums if their security apparatus is inadequate, which means that at least half of Italy's top-division games this weekend are likely to be played only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Red Card for Italian Soccer | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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